This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Angel Copy Share Image
That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Agony Copy Share Image
If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge History Copy Share Image
“He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beast Copy Share Image
“For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Paradise Copy Share Image
One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Grain Copy Share Image
He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Forlorn Copy Share Image
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ignorance Copy Share Image
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Argument Copy Share Image
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dishonesty Copy Share Image
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Father Copy Share Image
May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Astronomy Copy Share Image
And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing. Methinks, its motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Belief Copy Share Image
“I should much wish, like the Indian Vishna, to float along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotus, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Million years Copy Share Image
We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Angel Copy Share Image
The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Armament Copy Share Image
“Ere I was old? Ah woeful Ere, Which tells me, Youth's no longer here! O Youth! for years so many and sweet,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Party men always hate a slightly differing friend more than a downright enemy.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Enemy Copy Share Image
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Apes Copy Share Image
“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Expression Copy Share Image
We have to administer the law whether we like it or no. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Administer Copy Share Image
I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Advice Copy Share Image
Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Children Copy Share Image
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ability Copy Share Image
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Angel Copy Share Image
There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chance Copy Share Image